Molasses-gate



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PATENTED OCT. 15, 1850.

B. STEBBINS.

MOLASSES GATE.

5mm x SATS PA ENT OFICE.

E. S'IEBBINS, OF CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOLASSES-GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 7,724, dated October 15, 1850.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS STEBBINS, of Chico-pee, in the county ofHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Molasses Faucets or Gates; and I do hereby declare thatthe same is fully described and represented in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings, letters, figures, andreferences thereof.

Of the said drawing, Figure 1 denotes a top view of my improved molassesgate. Fig. 2 is a horizontal and longitudinal section of it. Fig. 3 is aside view of it.

In the said drawings, A represents the main or screw tube of the faucet,while B denotes the lever gate thereof.

From the side of the tube A, two ears a, b, are made to project and toreceive through them the turning shaft 0 of the gate B. A coiled orhelical spring (Z is placed on the shaft 0 and between the said twoears,and is made to hear at one end against that one which is next to thegate; while at its other end it is made to bear against a metallicwasher g placed on the shaft and held in position by a pin h carriedthrough the shaft.

The gate B, consists of a lever h united to a circular plate 5, andhaving a shaft 0 extended from it, as seen in Fig. 3. There is a stud Zprojected from the gate as seen in Figs. 1 and 3; which stud is made toextend and play between two shoulders m, 17., made on the ear (1; thesaid shoulders being for the purpose of determining the extent of motionof the gate. The sliding gate works against a leather seat 0 made on theend of the tube A in the usual manner and it is drawn close against thesaid seat by the expansive power of the spring d.

I am aware that in Letters Patent No. 3,002 as issued from the PatentOffice of the United States, the gate is represented as pressed againstthe seat by a combination of a helical spring and an arm. I lay no claimto such, as I entirely dispense with the arm, which being an unsightlyaffair is very much in the way and is constantly liable to be injured.Neither do .I claim the inven tion or application of a helical spring toforce the gate against the seat, but

WVhat I do claim is The arrangement of the spring, the turning shaft andtheir bearings at one end of the gate and 011 the side of the screw orseat tube, substantially in the manner above specified, the same givingto my improved molasses faucet several important advantages over thatdescribed in the said patent numbered 3,002.

In testimony whereof I have hereto setmy signature this 6th day ofAugust, A. D.

ERASTUS SQQEBBINS. Witnesses:

LORENZO LANE, C. F. KENT.

